Staff in American Studies

• Dr Frances Clarke (History)
  Nineteenth century history; Gender relations; Cultural history; Civil War & Reconstruction
• Dr Clare Corbould (History)
  African American history; the Harlem Renaissance; transnational history
• Dr Charles Fairchild (Music)
  The role of cultural intermediaries in the music industry, including studies of the “Idol” phenomenon and of music presenters at community radio stations in Australia, Canada and the USA
• Dr Bruce Gardiner (English)
  American literatures: Meso-American, Native American, African American, and Caribbean; and the literary traditions of New York State, New England, New Mexico, and the Tidewater South
• Dr Sarah Gleeson-White (English)
  20th- and 21st-century U.S. literature; the American South; frontier narratives and Westerns (literary and Hollywood); literary regionalism; the grotesque
• Dr David Kelly (English)
  America and American Cities; Modernism; Literature and Cinema
• Dr Michael McDonnell (History)
  Early and Revolutionary Virginia; American Revolution; Native Americans in North America; cultural intermediaries and brokers; popular politics in the early Atlantic; labour, race, class and class struggles in the early Atlantic
• Dr Stephen Robertson (History)
  Twentieth century social and cultural history; history of sexuality; legal history; history of childhood; hypertext and history
• Dr Richard Smith (Art History and Theory/Film Studies)
  Post Cold-War American and Hollywood cinema, particularly action-suspense genres such as the hi-jack, the heist, and the escape
• Professor Shane White (History)
  African American History; history of New York City; cultural history